University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Drury ' s Bluff, Winchester, Fredericksburg, Antietam, Malvern Hill, in Maryland, in the invasion of Pennsylvania, in Pickett ' s charge at Gettysburg. After this great battle, he was made prisoner and taken to Johnson ' s Island in Lake Erie, where he spent nineteen months as a prisoner of war. The winter of 1863-64 was one of unusual severity. Lake Erie was frozen so that wagons crossed from the mainland on the ice. The prisoners had one blanket each. Our prisoner and his bunk-mate put their blankets together and interlined them with newspapers to keep out the frost. The tedium of captivity was relieved for a few by the formation of a club for reading, the study of French and German under the tuition of Major Julian Mitch- ell of South Carolina, before the war attach of the United States Legation at St. Petersburg, an accomplished linguist. The women of Kentucky, old and young, were banded in every town and city for prison relief, and it was through the medium of this prison ministry that Captain Clark became acquainted by letter with her, who, after the war, was made his wife. Letters accompanied bales of clothing and boxes of Kentucky justly celebrated good things, and the girl who wielded the pen of a ready writer was often called upon to act as scribe. And thereby hangs a tale. An exchange was secured for Captain Clark through the Hon. Garrett Davis, United States senator from Kentucky, and he rejoined his command on the north side of James River, one month before the surrender at Appomatox. He was sur- rendered at Appomatox with Lee ' s brave remnant of a glorious army. On his return to Mississippi, that State in the throes of reconstruction offered no field for a young soldier whose family fortunes had been wrecked. He went to Kentucky, edited a paper called The Kentucky People, at Harrodsburg, and was there married to his present wife, Florence Anderson Clark. Together they edited the paper; together they made the old Kentucky home blossom as a rose; to- gether they sought a new home in fair Texas. For ten years Captain Clark was the partner in practice of law with Colonel James Q. Chenoweth. He was appointed one of the Regents of the University of Texas by Governor Ireland; became interested in the institution, then in its infancy; was made Proctor, Librarian, Registrar, Custodian-General, and removed to Austin in July, 1885. He has seen the University expand from its chrysalis state in the old temporary Capitol to its present dimensions. To it he has given eighteen of the best years of his life; to its students he has given the rare spectacle of a mind and heart unruffled by toil, undisturbed by petty personal ambitions, and unclouded by life ' s vicissitudes — the example of youthful heroism in defense of principles, of life-long devotion to duty, and of utter incorruptibility in the discharge of its obligations. His son, Carroll, is married and holds a position in the Confederate Home ; his daughter, Miss Edith, teaches English literature in the Denton Normal. She holds both the B.Lit. and M.A. degrees from the University. These brief sentences do not touch the hem of his larger life. That is written in the hearts of those whose lives his has touched and awakened. The revolving years alone can measure his influence. Long live this philosopher of cheerfulness, this dispenser of the wine of kindness. May many, many lustrums rest on him lightly. Long live the Judge! So say we all. Long live the Judge ! 10

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